NYT admits the lockdown is crazy

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Bret Stephens of the New York Times had an epiphany. The rest of the country is not like New York City.

His column headline was, "America Shouldn’t Have to Play by New York Rules. A national lockdown is bad medicine and worse politics."

Manhattan has 66,940 people per square mile.

All of New York City has 26,403 people per square mile.

The rest of the nation has 92.9 people per square mile.

24 states are less than the U.S. average.

Why in the name of all that is responsible is Alaska locked down? It has 1.3 persons per square mile.

Sure, Anchorage is at 175 people per square mile but that is less than 1% of New York City's density.

And dense it is. Its mayor encouraged people to go to Chinatown and it still has not shut down its subways. Masks? What are those?

Stephens looked at the numbers. He likely shook his head because the numbers do not justify shutting a nation down.

He wrote, "As of Friday, there have been more Covid-19 fatalities on Long Island’s Nassau County (population 1.4 million) than in all of California (population 40 million). There have been more fatalities in Westchester County (989) than in Texas (611). The number of Covid deaths per 100,000 residents in New York City (132) is more than 16 times what is in America’s next largest city, Los Angeles (8). If New York City proper were a state, it would have suffered more fatalities than 41 other states combined."

He left out much-maligned Florida, which has suffered 5 deaths per 100,000 people, and much-maligned South Dakota, which has suffered 1 death per 100,000 people

And he wrote, "Consider a thought experiment in which metropolitan New York weren’t just its own state, but its own country. What would the crisis for what remained of America look like, then? In this slightly smaller nation of a little more than 300 million people, the death toll would amount to about 7.5 per 100,000, slightly above Germany’s levels."

Deaths, not infections, matter.

We should have quarantined the hospitalized and worn masks. Instead Cuomo and other Democratys and anti-Trump Republicans politicized the daggone disease, and crashed the economy.

He wrote, "Americans are being told they must still play by New York rules — with all the hardships they entail — despite having neither New York’s living conditions nor New York’s health outcomes. This is bad medicine, misguided public policy, and horrible politics."

He ended his piece, "Gina Raimondo, the Rhode Island governor, was on to something when, a few weeks ago, she wanted to quarantine drivers arriving from New York. The rest of America needs to get back to life. We New Yorkers prefer our own company, anyway."

Quarantining drivers from New York is unconstitutional?

THE ENTIRE LOCKDOWN IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL!

And ineffective.